Product Description

The MultiConnect® mDot™ EVB has been designed to help companies quickly determine if LoRa™ is the right technology to solve key industrial IoT issues: how to effectively connect to, and manage, thousands of assets and sensors in the field to meet the cost, performance and strategic needs of the business. The mDot EVB, which includes a MultiConnect® mDot™ RF module, enables users to rapidly create proof of concept applications to determine if LoRa can help companies solve the most difficult challenges in industrial IoT:

Extended Life – use your proof of concept to measure LoRa’s extremely low power draw which enables battery-powered assets to operate for years

The mDot EVB helps companies determine if their LoRa-based IoT applications solve the questions above by making it easy to obtain real-world LoRa performance from their proof of concepts. With the click of a button, the mDot EVB provides a wealth of valuable information such as spreading factor, throughput, time and date activity and power level usage in your newly created IoT application. Viewing and analyzing application performance data is easy thanks to the versatility of the mDot EVB which provides multiple ways of exporting data, including to the customer’s preferred Cloud platform.

The mDot EVB features an LCD display screen for displaying navigation information as well as network, test mode, GPS and sensor status data. Two push button controls are also included providing menu navigation functions and two LEDs for displaying network and GPS status. The mDot EVB also has several built in sensors including temperature, ambient light, pressure, electrical current and a 3-Axis accelerometer. It comes with an on-board chip antenna to ease proof of concept development. This versatile device can be used purely as a communications device or programmed with a custom application using the integrated ARM® mbed Enabled™ programmable MultiConnect mDot.

Following the LoRa Alliance plan to ensure openness and interoperability, the mDot EVB was developed to work with LoRaWAN™ compliant gateways, including MultiTech’s MultiConnect® Conduit™, the industry’s most configurable, manageable, and scalable communications gateway.

Extremely easy to use, customize and manage, the mDot EVB makes evaluating LoRa technology for IoT applications as easy as clicking a button.